Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Poetics and Precarity—Literary Representations of Precarious Work, Past and Present
	A Short History of the Contemporary Precarious Flex-worker
	Affect and Time
	Institutions and Languages
	Historicizing Figurations of Precarity
	The Structure of This Book
	Bibliography
Part I: Figurations of Precarious Work: Prehistories
	Chapter 2: Precarity and Privilege in State-of-the-Nation Novels: Anatomy of a Fragmented Body Politic
		Status and Stratification
		Liminality of Precarity
		The Ethical “Interstice”
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Crossing Borders: The Semiotics of a Christian Poetics of Precarity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Slums, the Lumpenproletariat, and Precarity: Literary Representations of the Urban Precarious in Egon Erwin Kisch and Ilija Trojanow’s Reportages
		I
		II
		III
		IV
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: The Impossibility of Protest: Precarity in Maria Leitner’s Reportage Novel Hotel Amerika
		Hotel Society
		Failed Uprisings in Hotel Amerika
		The Representation of Precarity
		Reading Political Literature
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Precarity, Working-Class Literature, and the Written Presence of Objects: A Material Reading of Lucien Bourgeois’ L’Ascension (1925)
		Introduction
		The Status of Objects in Working-Class Literature
		Biography of the Iron-wire: Place, Time, and Voice
			Space
			Time
			Voice
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part II: Precarity, Materiality and Authorship
	Chapter 7: At Home on the Stage: Toward an Affective Geography of Gentrification and Eviction in U.S. Cities
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Common Language: Academics Against Networking and the Poetics of Precarity
		3 Chords and a Guitar
		A Word of Warning
		Against Networking
		Poetics in Commons
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Writing the Voices of Precarity in Contemporary French Literature
		Introduction
		Voice Versus Writing
		A Double Exteriority
		A Naturalist Revival
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Working Oneself to Death. Interview with Heike Geißler About Seasonal Associate (2014)
		Introduction
		Writing Precarity: Forms of Linguistic Resistance
		Deadly Work
		Affect: Anxiety, Boredom, and Anger
		Agency: Sabotage, Vulnerability, and Care
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: “The Side-By-Side Existence of Total Catastrophe and Everyday Life Is the Real.” Interview with Kathrin Röggla About Precarity and the Grammar of Catastrophes
		Introduction
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Precarious Authorship in the Digital Society. Literary Value Chains and Kathrin Röggla’s “Essenpoetik”
		Intellectual Property and Stripped Writers: Literary Economy of the Gutenberg Galaxy
		Platform Capitalism and Creativity: Precarious Authorship in the Digital Society
		Precarious Writing in the Digital Society: Kathrin Röggla’s “Essenpoetik”
		Precarious Authorship in the Digital Society: A Preliminary Conclusion
		Bibliography
			Primary Literature
			Secondary Literature
Part III: Figurations of Precarious Work in Contemporary Literature
	Chapter 13: Toward a Poetics of Precarity. Labor Spheres in Contemporary European Fiction
		Defining Precarity: Approaches from the Social Sciences
		Narrating Precarity: Aesthetic Criticism of the Primacy of Economic Thought
		The Precarious World of the Employee
		A Poetics of Precarity?—An Attempted Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: The Character of Risk
		Risk
		Character
		Ripley Bogle and Morvern Callar
		Believability and Textuality in Morvern Callar
		Ripley’s Lies
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: To Be or Not to Be a Laborer. Three Swedish Novels About Young Adults, Temporary Employment, and the Precariat’s Consciousness
		Three Novels About Temporary Employment
		A Foreign World of Labor
		The Precariat’s and the Proletarian Consciousness
		Doing, Thinking, and Feeling Class
		To Be or Not to Be a Laborer
		Enchanted by Work
		Conclusion: Three Educational Stories About Community
		Bibliography
	Chapter 16: Neighboring with the Roofless. Imagin(in)g Homeless Others
		Bibliography
	Chapter 17: In Real Time. Phenomenologies of Precarity in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
		“Something New and Strange”: Collaging Precarious Affects in Seasonal Quartet
		Connection, Conjunction, and Collectivity
		Bibliography
	Chapter 18: Coda: Narrating Precarity in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic
		Bibliography
Index